Spring is galaxy season. If you have a small telescope, this is a good time of year to get it out to find galaxies in the sky. Because most will appear as dim fuzzy blobs, a detailed star chart is ...

Pasadena, CA — Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement ...

Extra stellar systems are so far away from our own that we couldn’t even hope of developing a tape measure long enough to determine how far away they really are. On the other hand, astronomers can ...

Join us on a captivating adventure through the vastness of the cosmos as we traverse the sizes and scales of what lies around us in space! From tiny dust particles that slowly swirl together under the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted some of the earliest and most distant galaxies, but how can we be sure these early galaxies aren't closer and more recent? When you purchase through links on ...

AUSTIN, TEXAS — In the vastness of space, how far is far? That question has simmered in G. Fritz Benedict’s mind since he was 8, when a family friend took him into the backyard of his home and pointed ...

When amateur astronomers participate in star parties for the general public, the subject of distances in space always comes up. The immensity of our universe never fails to fascinate curious minds.

What is the nature of dark energy, a recently discovered dominant constituent of the universe today? Is expansion-accelerating dark energy an intrinsic property of space-time itself or rather a field ...

Astronomers have long known that the space between the stars contains a good bit of gas, dust, and probably larger chunks of unattached matter. The space between galaxies, however, they believed to be ...

The sun’s gravity would be pulling the moon away from Earth on November 20, 2025, at a distance that it had never been in the ...

As NASA’s Voyager 1 travels further into the cosmos, it’s on the brink of a new, groundbreaking milestone. In late 2026, it ...